Three Breakout Gamecocks From The 2022 Season

Head coach Shane Beamer’s squad trumped nationwide expectations in 2022 to have a season of such magnitude. 

There normally should be a number of gamers who make a a lot higher influence than they’ve made in years previous. For South Carolina, they noticed this in all three phases of the sport.

MarShawn Lloyd

Lloyd was a classy decide to interrupt out for South Carolina within the preseason. Whereas he handled a deep thigh bruise and questionable utilization within the first three video games, Lloyd fulfilled these expectations.

He was a giant purpose South Carolina ended their dropping streak towards Kentucky and Texas A&M and made a spotlight reel harking back to what he was doing earlier than his ACL damage again within the fall of 2020.

Tonka Hemingway

By way of gamers who made a number of game-altering performs this season, no participant did greater than defensive deal with Tonka Hemingway. Hemingway was a recreation wrecker on the inside, utilizing his plus athleticism to explode run performs and make life depressing for guards in cross safety.

Throw in some fumble recoveries within the Kentucky and Texas A&M contests, changing a 2-point particular groups trick play and catching a cross like a large receiver towards Vanderbilt. It is secure to say he has change into a do-it-all participant for South Carolina.

Mitch Jeter

If there was any participant who arguably had the largest sneakers to fill heading into this season, it was South Carolina’s kicker Mitch Jeter. The North Carolina native was taking up for his predecessor, Parker White, who had change into the varsity’s all-time chief in profession factors over the previous 5 seasons for South Carolina.

Jeter may’ve let this burden him however as an alternative embraced the expectation of being the following nice Gamecock kicker. He would make all of his further level and area objective makes an attempt, together with the go-ahead area objective towards the arch-rival Clemson Tigers, which helped South Carolina finish their seven-game dropping skid within the Palmetto Bowl.

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